"She belongs irrevocably to the '60s but that doesn't mean that she no longer has anything to say to us, or that her voice doesn't come howling down the years as a still unfulfilled yelp of desire, a wordless howl thrown after the disappearing back of a freedom big enough to match her need." - MOJO, March 1994.

Grace Slick on why her and Janis' voices had an impact on rock music: "The shocking sound of our voices. We weren't glam. We were crazed and enraged, which connected. My voice was icy cool and piercing, and Janis's was shrill and fire hot. We were different but the same." -Wall Street Journal, 2011.

"It all takes time, she knows. Janis wants to sing and she wants other people in the band to sing, too. You get a bunch of musicians together so everybody can contribute to the final product, make it something larger than the sum." - Rolling Stone, March 1969.

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Quiksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and The Fish, and Miller Blues Band played a benefit show to raise money for a community center in Mississippi and medical relief in North Vietnam. The show took place on March 12th, 1967 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.

"... guitar picks, a bottle of Southern Comfort (empty), a hip flask, an opened package of complementary macadamia nuts from American Airlines, cassettes of Johnny Cash and Otis Redding, gum, sunglasses, credit cards, aspirin, assorted pens and writing pad, a corkscrew, an alarm clock, a copy of Time, and two hefty books - Nancy Milford's biography of Zelda Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel." - David Dalton describing the contents of Janis' purse in his book, "Piece Of My Heart".

"She's a thoughtful, shy, slightly cynical girl who has no illusions about what she is doing musically, and not too sure about where it's all going to lead." - Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 17 August 1968

"The road is just a hassle, the only thing you got out of it that's groovy is playing. Any musician that I see that's working, especially those six-day weeks, they're only doing it for their music, there's no other reason, no money is worth that grief, man." - Janis to Rolling Stone, published in 1972.